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Books! Books! Books!: Explore Inside the Greatest Library on Earth (HB) by Mick Manning
$32.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
A handmade gospel hidden in a saint's coffin; a HUGE atlas that takes six people to lift it; a tiny prayer book carried by a queen to her execution; the original handwritten manuscript of Alice in Wonderland; books so rare and valuable they are kept in a bomb-proof store-room. The British Library is an ...Show more
Charles Dickens: Scenes from an Extraordinary Life by Mick Manning
$31.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The extraordinary life and genius of Charles Dickens is brought alive for primary-age children by the author-illustrator team behind the bestselling What Mr Darwin Saw. This beautifully and entertainingly illustrated 48 page picture book vividly dramatises his life, beginning with his birth in Portsmout ...Show more
Charles Dickens: Scenes from an Extraordinary Life by Mick Manning
$18.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Inspired by Charles Dickens' own words, Mick and Brita bring this extraordinary genius to life, revealing Dickens' childhood working in a London boot polish factory and charting his meteoric rise to fame as a young novelist. Follow him as he climbs a volcano, goes on tour to the US, presides at a family ...Show more
Charlie's War: Remembering World War One by Mick Manning
$34.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Charlie's War Illustrated
Mick Manning's grandfather joined the army in 1914 and served right through World War One. Fighting in the artillery on the front line in Egypt, Palestine and France, Charlie lived to tell his tale. Here Mick and Brita tell us about Charlie's War, illustrating his story with stunning artwork, period scr ...Show more
Charlie's War: Remembering World War One by Mick Manning
$19.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: One Shot
Mick Manning's grandfather joined the army in 1914 and served right through World War One. Fighting in the artillery on the front line in Egypt, Palestine and France, Charlie lived to tell his tale. Here Mick and Brita tell us about Charlie's War, illustrating his story with stunning artwork, period sc ...Show more
Dino-Dinners by Mick Manning (Illustrator); Brita Granström (Illustrator)
$17.98 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
It's dino-dinnertime but who eats what, and who eats who? How do we know what dinosaurs ate? Who hunted as a team? Who ate with their head in the treetops, and who ate absolutely anything they could find? Discover exactly what is on the menu, as you are invited to attend this dinner party with a differe ...Show more
How Will I Grow? by Mick Manning
$19.98 NZD
Category: Parenting - Baby and Toddler
How Will I Grow? is a sensitive and straightforward introduction to how we change from a baby into an adult. Find out how bones grow; why our milk teeth fall out; what we need to do to be strong and healthy.Friendly questions and answers also explore what happens to boys and girls when they reach pubert ...Show more
My Body, Your Body: A Book About Human and Animal Bodies by Mick Manning
$19.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: Wonderwise
Wonderwise books bridge the gap between stories and facts, perfect for building children's love of learning and reading.
Out There Somewhere It's Time to: A Book About Time Zones by Mick Manning
$19.98 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: Wonderwise
Wonderwise books bridge the gap between stories and facts, perfect for building children's love of learning and reading.
Secrets of Stonehenge by Mick Manning
$18.98 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Why was this amazing monument erected? How did our Stone-Age ancestors bring such massive stones to the site from so far away? How did they raise the enormous stones to their upright positions? What was Stonehenge used for, and who lived around the site? With captions and pictures, and using up-to-the-m ...Show more
Splish Splash Splosh! A Book About Water by Mick Manning
$19.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: Wonderwise
Splish, Splash, Splosh! takes you on a watery journey of discovery. Join the adventures of young boy and his dog and ride the waves, float on rain-filled clouds, shoot down fast flowing rivers and splash through sewers until you get to where all water ends...and begins. The Wonderwise series presents fa ...Show more
Taff in the WAAF by Mick Manning
$31.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
True story, based on the author's mother's actual war-time experiences and memories Mick Manning's mother was a young woman in Wales at the outbreak of World War II. This fascinating book, a companion to the the very successful Tail-End Charlie about Mick's father's life in the RAF in World War II, t ...Show more